Fringe Arts
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Fringe ArtsLocal Film Gives Montreal Minorities a Cinematic Voice
Non-art house Canadian cinema gets no respect. Whether it’s us trying out romantic comedies like Men With Brooms, buddy-cop flicks such as Bon Cop, Bad Cop or caper films like Foolproof, you can’t help but feel that the results, no matter how entertaining, are just the goofy little cousins of American blockbusters.
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Fringe ArtsMinimal and Surreal
Isobel and Emile is a story that begins at the end of a love affair.
Emile leaves for the city. Isobel stays behind. Emile is a puppeteer. In the city, he’ll brood on the love that he left and try to make some sense of it in his work. Isobel will deal with the silence left by the absence of Emile. -
Fringe ArtsTriplet Writ
Smooth over what comes apart,
smooth it over,
and with gentle hands she does
just that: one palm flat against
her mouth, holding everything in. -
Fringe ArtsMontreal-based Suuns release full-length debut album
Montreal band The Suuns is breaking into the music scene with their debut full-length album entitled Zeros QC. With a distinctive and psychedelic sound, these guys are the next big thing in the indie-rock scene.
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Fringe ArtsHarmonious Fusion
With Halloween just around the corner and Mexico’s Day of the Dead right after it, the vernissage Inside the Altar fuses North American culture and Mexican folklore to create a space where these two worlds can coexist harmoniously.
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Fringe ArtsThe Pitfalls of Becoming Mainstream
The soul of an indie band dissipates with success—or does it?
With success in the music industry come accusations from indie fans of being commercial sell-outs, followed by the dreaded classification of being declared “mainstream.” -
Fringe ArtsSPINS
Avey Tare
Down There
Paw Tracks
The opening track on Avey Tare’s solo foray, Down There, might bring to your mind strange images of dungeons and other things suited to medieval nights. However, his confident and heavily reverbed voice quickly assures the listener that Tare knows exactly what he is doing and where he wants to take his audience. -
Fringe ArtsA Print You Can Believe In
In 2008, graphic artist Shepard Fairey did what hours of attack ads and millions of campaign dollars couldn’t: he energized people about politics. Fairey’s Obama “Hope” poster likely helped launch the current U.S. President into public office. And he did it for free. -
Fringe ArtsBlack Mountain Aren’t Hippies Anymore
Black Mountain is giving Canadians reasons to get excited about our music scene.
Starting off as that cool and trippy up-and-coming band from the West Coast, they are now catapulting to new heights with global success.
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Fringe ArtsSeries Business
Concordia is home to a host of pretty left-wing, hippy-dippy groovy enterprises to better the lives of its students. Consider: the Really, Really Free Market, The People’s Potato, The Hive, Le Frigo Vert, and so on. Well, there’s another one to consider: The Concordia Community Solidarity Co-operative Bookstore.
